Your not a 4e player are you? Rakhshasa, Elf, Tiefling. SCORN AND DESPISE FOR THE UNHOLY ONE! Nah, I’m just kidding, although I do truly have a low opinion of the game aspects, its kind of cool seeing those races and classes playable

As for the comic, well, so far so good. Looking forward to seeing where everything is currently going

Well, technically, they were playable in D&D before 4E because of the ability to customize the rules. I know someone whose original, THAC0-based AD&D variant has over forty playable races. Then again, hisvariant has four four-inch binders for the character tables and GM rules alone, not to mention the six or so that he keeps his custom monsters in….

I’ve played a few variants, but I’ve only played 4E once. I had a pretty good time, and I liked the simplification of the battle system, but we were using premades at a con game, so I don’t know anything aobut the character creation. The people I play with are old D&D people so most of the variants I’ve tried are combinations between 2nd and 3rd edition.

Jeez, guys…. picky picky. Who the hell cares when the pages were made? Dunno about you, but I’M here to enjoy a great story with exceptional artwork, and you fling daggers at David over a mere date. If I were him, I’d protect my work, too. Can you produce a work better than his? Doubt it…..

You obviously dont understand what it takes to put a large webcomic together. If you meant to be helpful, ok, send him an e-mail so the whole world doesn’t need to see petty, yes, petty complaints. Like I said, if you have to pull a fine tooth comb thru something that doesnt need gromming, than your only purpose is to search for fault. Neither of us knows when he renders the pages, exactly when the story was concieved and written, so what does it matter when he presents it, which is MY point…..

Um, Eri, you are being a tad over-protective. There is a BIG difference between “complaining” and making a helpful comment. Matters of copyright can be very important, so if it is a mistake it needs to be pointed out – it’s not for the sake of tearing down someone else’s work but out of concern. No one is judging the author over this. Lambasting Alisha like that makes absolutely no sense. If you want to see an example of people nit-picking over a webcomic, go check out the comments on VGCats.

That said, @Alisha: the comic was probably done well in advance and we’re still seeing the backlog from 2010. A lot of industrious artists will keep about a month or two worth of backlogged comics in case of an emergency or if they go on vacation.

Thank you for the comments and viewpoint , @subscript. My own expression of opinion WAS a bit firery, seeing as @alicia stated it was meant to be helpful. For the sake of harmony among us I will retract my angry remarks and state instead that my considered opinion that constructive and helpful comments of a critical nature should be handled with tact. I manage a web graphics studio myself, and I personally feel that criticizing or even suggesting change to someone in front of a crowd is often devastating to that person. I handle it off to the side or behind closed doors, it’s simply good management.

I personally would have sent Dave an e-mail heads up to help out, but if he wasn’t offended by the public, remark, i’ll pipe down and let it go, guys. Sincere thaks .

Thanks for pointing that out! And sorry for dropping off the radar for a week. I’ll explain further in tomorrow’s newspost.

Eriendil, while I appreciate your concern and enthusiasm in supporting my comic, I didn’t really perceive anything dagger-shaped in these posts. If something rubs me the wrong way, I’ll be quick to say something – after all, I run the site and have editing and mod privileges with which to do all kinds of nasty things to people I don’t like.

I mean, not that I would.

😀

At any rate, your defense of me is heartwarming, but a bit exaggerated and over-reaching. I try to get through all of my comments when I can, and if someone is being hostile I’ll deal with them personally.

Actually, we’re quite common in the gaming community….
you don’t wanna know how many characters i have to name khaos or khaosh or some other manner of BS. Chaos is never, ever available…. except for the first week of a game.

thats why i use something obscure…like volfen7 or ragnarokk77…it works too…in most games, at least online mmorpg’s, it involves killing monsters and stuff, and ragnarokk iz the norse mythologies doomsday

You know… this is only the second time in the entire webcomic that we see Eshita’s feet. I think that every other character has had at least three foot cameos (except for this new elf). Poor Eshita needs some foot love.

It just seems so vapid and shallow to worry or pay attontien to these things. I would be depressed if I focused my energy on matters that in the end contribute nothing to the world, or even to my own personal growth. I always say exactly what I mean. I don’t have time for people who don’t.

Bards don’t have to have musical talent. As long as they’re good at making long-winded speeches, they can take “oratory” as their perform skill, and they buff the party just fine – and Laz has to have charisma, or most of these people wouldn’t have put up with him this long.

And there’s nothing Laz likes better than a good, long-winded rant.

Then again, if he were a cleric of himself, that would work out great, too, because if there’s anything Laz likes better than ranting, it’s singing his own praises 😀

Thanks! And sorry for disappearing. I took a week to do some soul-searching, and to wander the Earth like Cain from Kung Fu. Expect an update by midnight pacific time, accompanied by a long-winded news post.

i think laz would most likely be a sorceror. i can just see his mix of races giving some wicked inherent magical abilities, and i dont really picture him having the patience to learn magic the hard way.